SAS Tips

Xiaowei Zhan April 5, 2007 

Content
 Import data  Prettier output 

Import Data
 From Excel file

Doing your regression homework would be simpler, since the data is provided on textbook website. 

Import Data
 Compare:
1 DATA homework; INPUT y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 x10 x11 @@; LINES; 18.9 350 165 260 8 2.56 4 3 200.3 69.9 3910 1 2 …… DATA homework; INFILE “abc.txt”; INPUT y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 x10 x11; 3

PROC IMPORT DATAFILE=‘abc.xls’ OUT=homework REPLACE; 

Import Data
 From CSV (Comma Separated Values) file
Sample CSV file: 1,2,1,4,2 3,4,1,5,2 …..

Data dataset; INFILE ‘filename' DLM=‘,’ DSD MISSOVER FIRSTOBS=2; INPUT y x1 x2 x3 x4; 

Prettier output
 Use SAS ODS (Output Delivery System) ODS filetype FILE=“filename”; solve your homework… ODS filetype CLOSE; 

Prettier output
 Example
PROC IMPORT datafile=“data-table-B14.XLS" OUT=abc REPLACE; ODS HTML FILE="body.htm" PROC PRINT data=abc; PROC REG; MODEL y=x1 x2; RUN; ODS HTML CLOSE; 

Prettier output
 Other types of output include: PDF, RTF…
HTML
ODS HTML FILE=“out.html”; Your code… ODS HTML CLOSE;

PDF
ODS PDF FILE=“out.pdf”; Your code… ODS PDF CLOSE;

RTF
ODS RTF FILE=“out.rtf”; Your code… ODS RTF CLOSE; 

Further Info?
 The Little SAS Book: A Primer by Lora D. Delwiche , Susan J. Slaughter